LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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It functions as a metaphor for the women’s rights movement.
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It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.
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It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.
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It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, good weather is Bronte’s tool to foreshadow positive events or moods and poor weather is her tool for setting the tone for negative events or moods. This technique is exercised throughout the entire novel, alerting the readers of the upcoming atmosphere.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chapter 23: Rochester proposes The sudden break in the weather resulting in the storm which splits the horse chestnut tree into two is a clear sign that this impending marriage has danger attached to it in some way. Jane and Rochester will be ‘split’ just like the tree itself.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jane, overwhelmed with emotion, agrees to marry him. Rochester loves Jane, but even in proposing to her he distorted the truth to make it seem like he was marrying Blanche.
Detailed explanation-4: -Chapter XXIII [Rochester proposes marriage] from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.